Visitor's Experience

The International Storytelling Center and Gift Shop hours:
10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday

The International Storytelling Center is located across the street from the Courthouse at 100 W. Main Street in downtown Jonesborough. Download a map of Jonesborough with the Center location and parking.
(Map provided courtesy of George Moate.)

The Center Campus, located in historic Jonesborough, Tennessee, is the only facility anywhere in the world devoted exclusively to the power of storytelling and its creative applications. The Campus includes the 200-year-old Chester Inn, the 14,000-square-foot Mary B. Martin Storytelling Hall, and a surrounding three-acre park and offering the following amenities:

• A welcome and information area for visitors,
• A retail shop of storytelling books, recordings, and gifts,
• Exhibits about storytelling and the center's work,
• Live daily storytelling from May through October.